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More classroom work!

So I made a BIG purchase yesterday!! I bought the....wait for it...SILHOUETTE CAMEO!!


I'm so excited, and I've been playing with it since I got it! Here's some of the stuff I've made so far...
I started with making my control panel...easy!

Bookmark, I'm planning to laminate it

Bought a candy jar from target $5! Saw something similar to this on a website and I was cracking up so I had to do it! My 8th graders were really into moustaches last year!

Here it is full, but you can't really see the vinyl anymore...

My MacBook Pro Decal! I used the Cricut vinyl and it worked like a charm!

My husbands MacBook Air decal, I couldn't believe how easy this was!

Now onto my classroom, I spent HOURS putting together my 6 bookcases, mostly because at first I didn't have a hammer so I was slapping it together, which really hurt, and then I put THREE bookcases together wrong in some way or another. What a pain!
Close up

Room shot

Other perspective...

I am pretty pleased with the results! Still waiting on my 7th grade textbooks to put in, but this should be a great way to prevent unnecessary movement in the room!

I was pretty wiped after this, but I decided to suck it up and do my curtains...
I had leftover fabric draped over my chair and thought, what if I covered my chair??
So I did :) Thank you staple gun! I don't know how long it will last but it looks cute!
If you look closely, you'll see a note a former student stuck under my calendar :) I don't know how or when he got in my room but it was very sweet!

I finished up by setting up my no assignment area...

And put my WISE WORDS letters up (that I cut with my Cameo, of course!) :)

Added my mailbox to the suggestion box table, I duct taped a fedex box, it worked out ok!

Tomorrow I go back to work on the walls, and hanging things from the ceiling, which is always terrifying because I'm so short. More pics to come!








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  1. LOOKS GREAT!!!! My Cameo is still in the box! I seriously have not had time to play with it...I just keep going to my old faithful Circut.

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  2. I used to be more than happy to seek out this web-site.I am pretty pleased with the results! Still waiting on my 7th grade textbooks to put in, but this should be a great way to prevent unnecessary movement in the room!Macbook Pro Decal

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